Science Archives - Daša Pahor

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- Anatomy: تشريح [Teşrih / Anatomy] – Complete Set of 3 Pamphlets.
- 850.00€
- A charming complete set of three rare Turkish medical pamphlets on anatomy, written in the Ottoman language for students of medicine, illustrated with amazing proto-modern colour plates. 3 issues (all published), all 8°, with original printed wrappers: No. 1: 69 pp. with black and white illustrations, with 5 interleaved colour plates; No. 2: 36 pp. interleaved with 3…
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- ANATOMY: خريطه وجود بشر [Harita-i Vücud-i Beşer / Map of the Human Body].
- 450.00€
- Large 8°: [25 pp.], title page and 12 chromolithographed illustrations, printed on one side only, verso tan paper, original cover, later binding, stapled (internally in good condition with minimal staining in margins, back cover replaced, front cover slightly stained with repaired vertical crack with tiny loss).
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- Astronomy / American Scientist in Beirut: اكتشاف مسألة جديدة من الجغرافيا الرياضية اي علم هيئة الارض
- 1,500.00€
- [Observation of the New Problem of Mathematical Geography, i.e. the Science of the Earth's Sphere] An exceedingly rare treatise on the length of the day in various parts of the Earth, written by an Arab / Libyan scholar Muhammad Kamal al-Tarabulsi with an introduction of a Beirut-based American scholar Robert West 8°. 23 pp. with illustrations, printed in yellow…
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- ASTRONOMY / OTTOMAN EMPIRE: قوزموغرافيا ياخود علم احوال سما [Kozmografya yahud İlm-i Ahvâl-i Sema / Cosmography or Knowledge of Situation of the Sky. Second Edition]
- 620.00€
- An Ottoman book on astronomy, illustrated with fine black and white aquatints, was written for educational purposes and was based on the latest French popular works on astronomy, such as books by Amédée Guillemin (1826 – 1893) and Charles Briot (1817-1882). 8°. [16 pp.], 362 pp. with black and white printed and mounted illustrations in text, 17 interleaved…
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- Astronomy in the Ottoman Empire / Moon: قمر [Kamer / The Moon]
- 550.00€
- 8°, 206 pp. with black and white photos, contemporary red boards and black calf spine with gilt decoration and lettering, old small paper stamp with annotations in Ottoman on the cover (minor age-toning and foxing, old collector’s rubber stamp on the title page, otherwise a very good example in highly decorative original binding, with only slight wear to the…
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- AYURVEDIC MEDICINE / VARANASI IMPRINT: अथभाषाटीकासहिता अनुपानमंजरी
- 850.00€
- [Ajirņamamiñjari also Ajirna Manjari / Indigestion with Explanation and Commentary] A rare book in Sanskrit, printed in Varanasi, India, and describing remedies for indigestion, based on the Ayurvedic medicine Large 8°, title page, 25 pp., contemporary dark red cloth binding with gilt lettering on the cover, contemporary patterned endpapers (little age-toned, tiny tears in margins, binding and endpapers…
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- Chemistry in the Ottoman Empire: Kemmî ve Keyfî Kimya-i Tahlili / Kimya-i Ziraî. Chimie Agricole
- 1,200.00€
- Two seemingly unrecorded Ottoman texts on Chemistry 2 titles in 5 parts, bound together, large 8°. Mimeographed text in two colours with illustrations and hand written additions, 136 pp., 107 pp. (two parts of one title). 351 pp., 148 pp., 28 pp. (three parts of one title). Contemporary green cloth binding, contemporary pink endpapers (minor age-toning and staining,…
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- Cholera – Hygiene – Istanbul: L’Hygiène publique à Constantinople.
- 450.00€
- A rare work on hygiene in Istanbul, written by a French engineer to prevent cholera and similar diseases, which were then spreading across Europe. 8°: [1] title, 35 pp., original pink wrappers with printed title, cover signed by the author and dedicated to Leon Sellié (wrappers slightly age-toned and stained with tiny tears to spine).
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- Edital. / O Principe Regente nosso senhor por Sua Real resolução de 27 de julho do corrente anno em consulta do Tribunal da Real Junta do Commercio, Agricultura, Fabricas, e Navegação deste Estado do Brazil, e Dominios Ultramarinos: Foi servido authorizer o mesmo Tribunal, assim para estabelecer premios, pelas sobras do seu cofre, ás pessoas que fizerem climatizar em qualquer lugar dos seus Estados, e Dominios, arvores de especiaria fina da India, e que introduzirem a Cultura de outros vegetaes, ou indigenos, ou forasteiros, que são preciosos pelos usos que tem na Pharmacia, Tinturaria, e mais Artes…
- 1,800.00€
- Extremely rare – 1 of only 3 known examples – an ‘Edital’ (Notice) broadside issued by the exiled Portuguese royal court in Brazil that encourages the cultivation of plants that have pharmacological and industrial uses, part of Brazil’s revolutionary economic liberalization programme overseen by the ‘Real Junta do Commercio’, published in Rio de Janeiro by the Impressão Regia, Brazil’s…
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- EPIDEMIOLOGY – MEXICO – CHOLERA / MEXICO CITY IMPRINT: Nueva doctrina sobre el cólera, ó sea, Los fenómenos del cólera asiático, estudiados a la luz de la nueva teoría del principio vital, que el profesor Isidoro Olvera escribió y publicó en 1846, bajo el título de “La electricidad aplicada a la esplicación de los fenómenos de la vida”.
- 1,600.00€
- Isidoro OLVERA Crespo (1815 - 1859). Mexico City: Imprenta de J.M. Lara, 1851. 8° (21.5 x 13.5 cm): [4], 119, [3] pp., plus, errata leaf, bound in modern quarter calf over cloth with gilt title to spine (Very Good, overall clean and crisp, just some areas of very light toning) (#70664). Very Rare – a fascinating and unusual treatise…
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- Family Medicine in the Ottoman Empire: رهب صحت [Rehber-i Sıhhat / Guide to Health].
- 180.00€
- 8°: 156 pp. with black and white images, dark green illustrated wrappers (good overall, small tears, small folds and chips to corners, wrappers slightly stained and water-stained, tiny tears and loss of paper to spine, corner of front cover repaired).
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- FIRST AUTOPSY IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: مقالات طبيه [Makalat-ı Tıbbiye / Medical Reports].
- 1,800.00€
- A thesis on the first autopsy ever conducted in the Ottoman Empire, performed by Karl Ambros Bernard in 1841, at the Austrian Hospital in Istanbul, written by Hayrullah Efendi, a future Ottoman diplomat and prolific author 8°: [4 pp., index], 149 pp., 6 folding charts, contemporary marbled boards, restored calf spine, old paste down tile to cover bearing…
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